In honor of the international gathering currently taking place in Beijing for the 2008 Summer Olympics, I would like to address the various people around the world that have recently visited The Big Piece of Cake.
First of all – it should be noted that almost all of them happen upon me through seemingly unrelated Google searches. They rarely stay long and almost never return – but I still get a kick out of seeing those pinpoints on my Stat Counter map. Here are some recent searches and their countries of origin:
From Istanbul, Turkey:
“big the hip girl pictures”
This linked to Hip Young Girls, Other Mothers and of Course, Mormons. I apologize to the Turkish Sir Mix-A-Lot for not providing any Baby Got Back love.
From Gibraltar:
“cake underwear“
This linked to More Star Wars Underwear, An Entire Chocolate Chip Pound Cake and Various and Sundry Extras. Sounds like it was fairly innocent. Maybe a nice girl looking for some novelty boxers for her boyfriend? Or maybe the boyfriend with something completely different in mind… Who can say?
From Toulon, France:
“love short men“
This linked to A Short Rant to a Short Man. I was thrilled to see that the reader had the post translated into French (and took over 30 seconds of their time to read it it). En français, I am Le Gros Morceau de Gâteau. That’s right – in French I actually rhyme. And my French title is délicieusement scathing: Un Court Rant à Une Courte Homme. The “une” means I’ve managed to make Mayank also sound like a girly man. To this I say, Vive La France!
*Note: This post was also opened by someone in Austria on the same day. Unfortunately, Stat Counter did not provide information on how they found it. They, unlike the French visitor did not translate and did not stay long enough to read it. Those Austrians are so uptight.
From Tehran, Iran:
“pervert post“
This linked to Peeping Toms and Sex Perverts in Thailand. So general? I mean – there are SO many ways you can go with “pervert.” Makes you wonder what exactly he had in mind (notice that I’m just assuming that these searches are all coming from men…)
From Bangkok, Thailand:
“cake word in thai“
This linked to (you guessed it) Peeping Toms and Sex Perverts in Thailand. Okay – so I’m a little embarrassed. Some nice tourist in Thailand looked up the translation for “cake” and they got a rambling post about internet pervs. Hopefully they were American and I didn’t add to the pool of negative fodder for U.S. bashing.
*I had another link to this post on the same day from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. No info on the search though.
I could list more – but this is a general selection of what I saw over the weekend after Friday night’s Opening Ceremonies.
I do have ONE international reader that has been visiting regularly, from Hong Kong. Since there is no originating search for underwear, perverts or short men, I’m assuming that they may actually just relate to me and what I write. I love that! In fact, if you are my reader from Hong Kong, please leave me a comment. I’m curious to see what else we have in common (I mean OTHER than underwear, perverts and short men).
This is hilarious. I love google analytics, feedburner, etc… it’s so fascinating to see where people are coming from. And the searches people do are even funnier. Do you read Daddy Likey? She does a post once in a while on the searches that lead people to her blog. It cracks me up.
That is too funny I love finding out how poeple find the bloggs they do
My hits from google aren’t nearly as interesting. I wrote a post titled, “Why won’t my baby drink her bottle,” and I get roughly 20 hits per day on that post. Boring – right? I have no idea why I just shared this dull story with you. The end.
Jozette – I love Daddy Likey. There is a little bit of everything there and I think she’s SO funny.
Suzie – This entertainment for me. I know that I should be more interested in how many hits I get each day, etc. – but for some reason, I get far more enjoyment seeing that someone looking for porn ended up at my site.
Christy – Maybe you should try “Why won’t my sex pervert baby drink her bottle in star wars underwear?” That would probably do the trick.
4th comment was me – I accidentally deleted the text above after publishing. I do not delete comments. You would have to say something really evil to make me delete you. Just wanted to go on record with that.
As you know, my early blogger experience with this key word search was moritifying. Who knew that a post tile, Golden Girls Kick Sex and the City’s Butt, could be bring such pervs to my site. I’ve been SO careful since not to use any even midly contraversial words…although sometimes I just can’t help it, like tonight!
But I thought you were a foodie ?? lol :)
Congrats that you are on the international radar !
gosh, I love those. I am always amazed when I read mine. Sometimes I proceed to feel nervous. But for the most part, the searches are just funny.